Identifying a user about botkit

[ding444]

@Shubhamjain112, it's late to the game but this is how I've done it:

controller.hears('hello', ['direct_mention'], (bot, message) => {
    bot.api.users.info({user: message.user}, (error, response) => {
        let {name, real_name} = response.user;
        console.log(name, real_name);
    })
})

[djanowski]

(For people finding this issue via Google:)

If you just want to mention the user, you don't need to query the users API to get the handle.

Format the message like this: Hello <@${user}>. Slack will turn the ID into a proper mention.

[benbrown]

Sounds like you want to get the name of the user from Slack. Am I right?

For this, you would use bot.api.users.info()

[chriskinsman]

Yep. Just thought there would be a method backed by storage that would identify the user from storage and only make the call if needed. I added one. Will look at a pull request..

[Shubhamjain112]

How do I get the user name through bot.api.users.info() ?

[lucaskatayama]

I got

{ ok: false, error: 'not_authed' }

I added users:read to the scope... but still not_auth...

[littleStudent]

same problem here. users:read added to the scope. still getting not_authed error

[hannesjung]

same for me, did you find a fix?

[littleStudent]

I could not figure out how to get the user...
I used this package just for getting the list of users https://www.npmjs.com/package/slackbots

[azizimranz]

Hi,

I want the bot to hear from only specific user.

(Its drift user that I want to hear only).

[artur79]

(For people finding this issue via Google:)

If you just want to mention the user, you don't need to query the users API to get the handle.

Format the message like this: Hello <@${user}>. Slack will turn the ID into a proper mention.

what if I'v got user id and I don't want to get mention, just name ?

[EitanK96]

@artur79 , did you manage to solve this because i am also trying the same thing that you wanted